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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 151
by George Burnett - 1807
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Raphael: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter

Estelle May Hurll - 1899 - 514 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." We could easily fancy that our picture of the Shepherdess was meant to illustrate a scene in Arcadia....
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Gems of Genius in Poetry and Art: From the Kings and Queens of Thought : and ...

Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing ; and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicetnusic. Sm PHTT.TP SIDNEY. " Many are tne tneugnte tnat la rrie, in rnv lenelY musing, find tn.eY...
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Jean François Millet: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the ...

1900 - 134 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." We could easily fancy that our picture of the Shepherdess was meant to illustrate a scene in Arcadia....
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A Little Book of English Prose

Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withall singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's musick. POETRY AND MORALS Nowe therein of all Sciences (I speak still of humane, and according...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 18

Literature - 1901 - 686 pages
...he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting and singing withal ; and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. AN ARCADIAN LOVE-LETTER. MOST blessed paper, which shall kiss that hand whereto all blesseduess is...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 442 pages
...he should never be old : there a young shepherdess knstting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands...country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succour...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...should never be o!d ; there a yong shepherdesse knitting, and withall singing ; and it seemed that eunuchs, because they that are envious towards all are more obnoxiou voices music. (Book ¡ chap, a.) A Stag Hunt. Then went they together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining...
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In Shakespere's England

Mrs. F. S. Boas - England - 1903 - 378 pages
...he should never be old : there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing ; and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." The Prince of this fair land has two daughters Pamela and Philoclea, both beautiful and virtuous maidens,...
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Simple History of English Literature: With Illustrative Extracts

A. L. Stronach - English literature - 1905 - 280 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing ; and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. [CHAP. ix.) THOMAS SACKVILLE, Earl of Dorset. Born 1536— Died 1608. THOMAS NORTON. Born about 1532—...
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The Oxford Treasury of English Literature...: Old English to Jacobean

Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1906 - 376 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing : and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands...her voice-music. As for the houses of the country . . . they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off as that it barred...
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